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Essays & Reportage
The dealmaker
Frank Bongiorno
24 September 2021
John Elliott — who died this week — in many ways personified the business excesses of Australia’s 1980s
Essays & Reportage
The trailblazer
Mark Baker
24 September 2021
Journalist Jan Mayman pioneered reporting of Indigenous deaths in custody
Essays & Reportage
Power without purpose?
James Walter
24 September 2021
A long process of change has reached its apogee in the prime ministership of Scott Morrison
Essays & Reportage
Why, and why not?
Andrew Chalk
17 September 2021
Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten
Essays & Reportage
Harold Evans, an editor in his time
David Hayes
14 September 2021
A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituarists’ campaigning hero-journalist
Essays & Reportage
Why the New Deal still matters
Eric Rauchway
13 September 2021
In ways that still resonate, the program to drag the economy out of the Great Depression changed Americans’ relationships with politics, economics and each other
Essays & Reportage
Australia’s manosphere: a prehistory
Simon Copland
13 September 2021
How keyboard warriors are displacing men’s right groups
Essays & Reportage
Telling truths
Tim Rowse
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
Essays & Reportage
What do we really want from farmers?
Gabrielle Chan
10 September 2021
Farming could be part of the solution to many of Australia’s problems
Essays & Reportage
Unpicking the legacy of the Tampa
Madeline Gleeson
3 September 2021
Can we use a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic to help us rethink our treatment of refugees?
Essays & Reportage
Was Neville Wran corrupt?
Rodney Tiffen
31 August 2021
The former NSW premier’s time in office was dogged by allegations, but do they stand up?
Essays & Reportage
All that remains
Kate Fullagar
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Essays & Reportage
A line in the water
Peter Mares
28 August 2021
A fateful stand-off in August 2001 saw Australia’s treatment of boat arrivals shift from deterrence by example to deterrence by force
Essays & Reportage
“If we care for Country, it will care for us”
Sarah Barns
17 August 2021
What happens when the idea of Country is integrated into how Australian cities are planned?
Essays & Reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Essays & Reportage
Blood in the water
Nick Richardson
6 August 2021
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s bid for asylum in Tokyo is a reminder of how the 1956 Melbourne Games were riven by politics
Essays & Reportage
Friends with benefits
Alecia Simmonds
2 August 2021
When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships?
Essays & Reportage
Quiet Australian
Hamish McDonald
29 July 2021
Marise Payne has much to contend with as foreign minister in the Morrison government
Essays & Reportage
Time for another visionary moment at the NFSA
Ray Edmondson
23 July 2021
It’s crunch time for Australia’s film and sound heritage
Essays & Reportage
The Great Divide
Bill Gammage
20 July 2021
The debate about
Dark Emu
is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of
The Biggest Estate on Earth
Essays & Reportage
Fairfax’s blue team
Tim Burrowes
16 July 2021
Based in a nondescript office in inner Sydney in 2016–17, a secret team set about saving the publisher’s newspapers
Essays & Reportage
Karachi’s gravitational pull
Samira Shackle
9 July 2021
A journalist returns again and again to Pakistan’s largest city
Essays & Reportage
The Resolve poll that resolves very little
Murray Goot
5 July 2021
How skilfully has the
Age
and the
Sydney Morning
Herald
’s new pollster gauged opinion on quarantine, cutting emissions, and China?
Essays & Reportage
Why does Truth come third?
Kate Fullagar
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians
Essays & Reportage
The insiders
Jeremy Gans
7 June 2021
A new podcast brilliantly tracks Australia’s “biggest insider trading case.” But does it let the authorities off too lightly?
Essays & Reportage
The twin pandemics
Melissa Sweet
4 June 2021
Manufacturers of unhealthy products aren’t letting the crisis go to waste
Essays & Reportage
A Taylor-made rebellion
Brett Evans
28 May 2021
The high-profile federal energy minister faces a grassroots campaign in his electorate
Essays & Reportage
Bitter harvest
Hamish McDonald
28 May 2021
The pandemic has increased the bargaining power of seasonal workers in rural Australia. But how long will that last?
Essays & Reportage
The 1967 referendum: inspiration or burden?
Tim Rowse
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
Essays & Reportage
Friendless in the courtroom
Alecia Simmonds
14 May 2021
Women’s full right — and responsibility — to sit on juries came late to Australia
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